Mum gives birth to ‘real life mermaid’ baby
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A 23-year-old Indian mother shocked doctors when she gave birth to country’s second ‘Mermaid baby’ whose gender was impossible to be determined, but lost it just four hours later.
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The baby born with fused legs was born with a rare condition known as ‘Mermaid Syndrome’ or Sirenomelia. It was the second such case in the country and fifth in the world.
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Muskura Bibi had given it natural birth on Wednesday morning at the government-run Chittaranjan Deva Sadan Hospital in Kolkata, India.
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Bibi, for whom it was the first pregnancy, had not undergone sonography and only learnt about the baby’s condition when she first saw it after birth.
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Dr Sudip Saha, child specialist at the hospital said: “The baby had normal formation in upper part of the body but below the waist its legs were fused together. .
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The lower part was not developed completely. The parents are a labour couple and had not sought proper medication during pregnancy due to lack of money.
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Due to lack of proper nutrition and improper blood circulation to the baby from mother can create this kind of abnormality in foetus. Unfortunately such babies do not survive.” 📸: Caters News Agency